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CVE-2015-2779

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Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.

References

https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74048

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-04-10

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01572

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